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The Sheep Thief (1997)
Directed by Asif Kapadia
Drama · 24m
A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Asif Kapadia
- Writer
- Asif Kapadia
Details
- Release date
- 1997-05-16
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Hindi
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Channel 4 Television, Polaris Arts, Royal College of Art